Ian Holm
Acting
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Sir Ian Holm Cuthbert CBE (September 12, 1931 – June 19, 2020) was an English actor. After beginning his career on the British stage as a leading member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he became a successful and prolific performer on television and in films. He received numerous accolades including two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award, along with nominations for an Academy Award and two Emmy Awards. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1989 by Queen Elizabeth II. Holm won the 1967 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his performance as Lenny in the Harold Pinter play The Homecoming. He won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his performance in the title role in the 1998 West End production of King Lear. For his television roles he received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for King Lear (1998), and the HBO film The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2003). He gained acclaim for his role in The Bofors Gun (1968) winning the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a BAFTA Award win for his role as athletics trainer Sam Mussabini in Chariots of Fire (1981). Other notable films he appeared in include Alien (1979), Brazil (1985), Henry V (1989), The Madness of King George (1994), The Fifth Element (1997), The Sweet Hereafter (1997), and The Aviator (2004). He gained wider appreciation for his role as the elderly Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. He also voiced Chef Skinner in the Pixar animated film Ratatouille (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Holm, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
Alien: Romulus
2024
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
2014
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
Discovering Hamlet
2011
1066: The Battle for Middle Earth
2009
Ratatouille
2007
The Real Middle Earth
2007
The Treatment
2007
Legends
2006
O Jerusalem
2006
Strangers with Candy
2006
Chromophobia
2006
The Queen of Trees
2005
Lord of War
2005
The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
The Aviator
2004
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
Garden State
2004
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004
The Day After Tomorrow
2004
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
2004
Dragon's World: A Fantasy Made Real
2004
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
Monsters We Met
2003
Prisoner of Paradise
2003
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
2002
The Lord of the Rings - The Appendices Part 2: From Vision to Reality
2002
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
The Emperor's New Clothes
2001
From Hell
2001
Secret Agent
2001
Esther Kahn
2000
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells
2000
Bless the Child
2000
Beautiful Joe
2000
The Miracle Maker
2000
Joe Gould's Secret
2000
Animal Farm
1999
Wisconsin Death Trip
1999
The Match
1999
Shergar
1999
eXistenZ
1999
Shanghai Vice
1999
Simon Magus
1999
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
Tale of the Tides
1998
King Lear
1998
Incognito
1997
A Life Less Ordinary
1997
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
The Fifth Element
1997
Night Falls on Manhattan
1997
Big Night
1996
Loch Ness
1996
A Little Fish in Deep Water
1996
Little Red Riding Hood
1995
Landscape
1995
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out
1995
The Madness of King George
1994
The Deep Blue Sea
1994
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Mustang: The Hidden Kingdom
1994
Chappaquiddick
1994
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends: The Tailor of Gloucester
1993
The Return of the Borrowers
1993
The Mysterious Career of Lee Harvey Oswald
1993
The Hour of the Pig
1993
The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends
1992
The Borrowers
1992
Blue Ice
1992
The Last Romantics
1992
Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen
1992
Naked Lunch
1991
Bloody Sunday
1991
Kafka
1991
Uncle Vanya
1991
Performance
1991
Hamlet
1990
A Season of Giants
1990
Stalin
1990
Chillers
1990
The Tailor of Gloucester
1989
Henry V
1989
The Endless Game
1989
The Endless Game
1989
The Kingdom of Fun
1989
Another Woman
1988
Game, Set, and Match
1988
Korea: The Unknown War
1988
The Fishing Party
1986
Cry From Home
1986
Murder by the Book
1986
The Browning Version
1985
Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill
1985
Dreamchild
1985
Wetherby
1985
Dance with a Stranger
1985
Brazil
1985
Visions of Power
1985
Television
1985
Screen Two
1985
The Cost of Treachery
1984
Laughterhouse
1984
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
Bette Davis: The Benevolent Volcano
1983
Natural World
1983
The Return of the Soldier
1983
Soft Targets
1982
Inside the Third Reich
1982
The Bell
1982
Strike: The Birth of Solidarity
1981
40 Minutes
1981
Time Bandits
1981
Chariots of Fire
1981
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
The Misanthrope
1980
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
Alien
1979
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Les Misérables
1978
The Lost Boys
1978
The Lost Boys
1978
Holocaust
1978
Flayed
1978
The Thief of Baghdad
1978
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
March or Die
1977
The Man in the Iron Mask
1977
Ramsey
1977
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
Jubilee 1977
1977
Shout at the Devil
1976
Robin and Marian
1976
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
1975
Private Affairs
1975
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974
The Wood Demon
1974
Juggernaut
1974
Children in Crossfire
1974
Napoleon and Love
1974
NOVA
1974
The Homecoming
1973
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
1973
The Treat
1972
Young Winston
1972
The Frighteners
1972
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Nicholas and Alexandra
1971
Funny
1971
A Severed Head
1971
Play for Today
1970
The End of the Line
1970
The Salesman
1970
Emma's Time
1970
Omri's Burning
1969
Moonlight on the Highway
1969
Oh! What a Lovely War
1969
Edward the Confessor
1969
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969
The Fixer
1968
Frankenstein
1968
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
The Bofors Gun
1968
ITV Playhouse
1967
Opus
1967
Mystery and Imagination
1966
The Power Game
1965
BBC Play of the Month
1965
National Geographic Specials
1965
The Wars of the Roses
1965
The Wars of the Roses
1965
The Wednesday Play
1964
Horizon
1964
The Paradise Suite
1963
The Cherry Orchard
1962
Survival
1961
Girls at Sea
1958
Rope
1957
Armchair Theatre
1956
Tony Awards
1956
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951